auburnseeker

I think the exposure on eBay is better. I never look at bring a trailer. I kind of forgot it existed, but there are probably few people that don't know about eBay. There are probably more people registered on eBay as well, so you don't have to sign up to bid on something like bring a trailer created an account etc. Most car guys or their wives have an eBay account already and a reputation.

I've seen this one on our somewhat local craigslist. Asking $14500 Says original paint. Looks very clean. I don't care for the color, but the interior color works for me. If I had some money to buy one, I would give this one a second look. https://fingerlakes.craigslist.org/cto/d/rare-opportunity-1964-buick/6447700253.html

I sold my 60 Fuel injected Corvette on eBay. It was bid quite high. The buyer sent the deposit within 24 hours and then wired the money to my account within a few more hours after getting the routing numbers from me. It all went smooth. He never even sent an agent or even had me send him extra photos of the car as I always recommend serious buyers do. Serious buyers are nice. There are a few that aren't but you get those with any venue you sell on.

If the rest of the car looks as nicely done as what you can see on either of those, I wouldn't be surprised if they had 75G in the build of either. The dark colored one has almost stock looking wheels that appear very wide, so they were custom made for this car or in a very limited number, That's not cheap, so I can only imagine what they spent on everything else.

Too bad it wasn't Baldwinsville instead of Baldwin. That's a lot closer to me. What's incorrect on the taillights? The whole assembly and mount or just the lenses? I think the lenses themselves are suppose to say Dodge aren't they?

I'll keep an eye out and pass anything along. I honestly don't recall seeing any for sale in the recent past. Especially a 1950 2 door fastback. You honestly don't see a lot of this era Pontiacs for sale at all. I know they are out there, they just don't turn up with a lot of frequency. I like the 40's Pontiacs and you rarely see any of those for sale. Chevy, now that's a whole different story. I have been told the 8 is a good road car. I'm not sure how the 6 compares.

When you discuss value on either a stocker, or restored, or hot rodded, you will rarely come out on top either restored or hot rodded. Those 30 to 35 thousand dollar rods you see, have more than that in them, just like restored cars. Quality parts cost money. When you take a bunch of junk yard parts and hokey an old car up with them to make it a modern rod, it shows, and usually ends up like one of the ones we see on craigslist, that look decent (not show quality) outside, then you go inside or under the hood and everything that isn't tired looking or cobbed just doesn't flow with the lines and the design of the car. To take one of these and restore everything but the driveline, to achieve the stock look with a modern powertrain and lower stance (resto rod) costs a lot of money. Chrome plating, paint, and Upholstery will cost the same whether it's a restored car or a hot rod, unless you throw the chrome away or paint it, then you no longer have that look you were going for. Quality wheels, a disc brake conversion, independent front suspension, good crate engine and tranny along with all the components that need to be changed to support these. plus the engineering to make it drive like a new car, without shakes or shimmies and corner like you think it will, all take lots of engineering. My Friend's shop specializes in fixing all these problems that people build into their resto rods. I get to hear all the stories. I wonder how many of the cars that have been converted really drive any better than the original would have with fresh suspension, brake and engine rebuild of the original. I do understand disc brakes stop better and modern engines have more power, but only if the guy putting it all together knows what he is doing. some guys do really quality work. Xander on this forums works looks spectacular and his stray from stock a bit but I have seen a lot that don't. Craftsmanship is just that. Stock or rod. A quality restored car or quality rodded car ain't Cheap and usually never worth as much as it cost to do. The biggest downfall I see, is a stock restored car will always be that. A rodded car often follows the latest trend. Trends change as do what is considered good parts. Certain combos were real popular 10 to 20 years ago that no one wants now. Be it paint, Engine transplants, whatever. A stock restored car never goes out of style, but many rods do. Of course fast forward another 50 years and the style may come back as retro. Tough that whole van craze from the 70's still doesn't seem to have any real resurgence. That's probably a whole other story though.

I would almost be tempted to try to figure out a way to buy this one myself. I would consider trading him my 40 Ford coupe, but I would need some cash and this Dodge for it. It is quite a looker though. I wish it were just a tad closer. A couple hours away I would consider it. It's on the other side of the city and down over the Island. I'm atleast 3 hours from the city and that's just the outside. atleast another hour I imagine to get to that side from this. I'm not a big sedan fan but this one does have really nice lines.

I saw this on Craigslist and thought of Keiser. It's definitely not a 1930. Looks like a 33 by YOM plate on the front Maybe it was just inherited. Who knows but boy it is really nice looking. Very nice lines and in pretty nice shape. That interior looks very well done. I don't think the price is really too bad either at 18,000 or trade for an old 1950s pickup. https://newyork.craigslist.org/lgi/cto/d/1930-dodge/6490818614.html

Buy a gallon of evaporust and soak them in that. A fresh gallon will work in a day, as it gets really dirty, it may take a couple of days. Cleans both grease and rust / corrosion off everything, will also clean off the rust of course. I soaked a whole displays worth of oxidized and pitted door handles in some well used evaporust. They came out so clean on all sides, save the actual pits which obviously don't come off, they looked like they were plated yesterday. Even nicely cleaned all the plastic knobs as well as all the nooks and crannies with almost no effort whatsoever. Best part is a light slide around each piece with an old tooth brush before you rinse them with water and they will sparkle. I can't tout this stuff enough and use it daily on all sorts of parts. I sell NOS parts for a living and these leave the surface rusted, dirty parts looking like they were just manufactured. Yes it's 17.00 for a gallon, bot one gallon will last most guys a couple of years. I've even given a few gallons away as gifts. Try it. You will amazed.

As mentioned though. Nothing sensational about that. Today's news is full of sensation. They even make it up, the news and the super colossal words to make it seem more extreme than ever before. Like in the Northeast a snowstorm of the worst degree was pretty much a nor'easter. usually got a couple every year. This year that same type of storm is now a "bomb cyclone caused by or followed by a polar vortex". Sounds much more sensational now doesn't it. Same storm. Even caused many deaths, including the guy that had a heart attack while sitting in his chair in the house, thinking about all the snow he was going to have to shovel. That's now a casualty of the storm. I heard on the radio today that every 13th case going into doctor's offices now is flue related. Either they have a fever or a cough or something flue like. Seems much more sensational than saying every 26th case had the flue and the others actually had a cold. They still don't tell us what any of the pediatric deaths they keep touting were actually caused by. They just say the flue. Were there pre existing conditions? I'm getting sick of all the reporting with lack of crucial information. Seems to be a lot of them, regardless of which side the aisle you look at it from. Same with the article I posted about the new flying car. First ever road legal flying car is now coming out. Unfortunately the lazy reporter, forgot to do the tiniest bit of research or they got the date screwed up as that would have been about 1949 with the Airphibian. Though other manufacture's dabbled with it as well, I thin the Airphibian was the first actually produced and marketed that was road legal and did fly.

You couldn't Buy one of those kind of rough non running craigslist cars for 6500 to 8500 and come out with one that looked this good, even if you did all the work yourself. Plus you could be enjoying this one tomorrow, not 3 or 4 years from now.

Careful, they might sense it and go into the same mode to you, like dogs.

I thought I posted this earlier, but can't find it now. Here is one on the local Craigslist. it's in NY. Doesn't look bad. It's a stick though for $8500 https://newyork.craigslist.org/lgi/cto/d/1960-ranchero/6481361025.html It's been for sale for a while though so that may be negotiable.

Close guess though. You might be on to something, but for a different car. It really does look like it could be lower stone shield. I think the wrong box might be the best explanation. That might even be the right piece the more I look at it. Here is another shot of it.

Of course it would be CA. You should try to accomplish the same thing in the Northeast. So there is atleast one good thing about CA. Clean cars.

Maybe he meant stock in the form of it not being a hot rod , with small block and digital this and that. It's a good touring restoration / rebuild with upgrades for such. That would probably be better choice of description than all stock. After seeing so many rodded, most people, except the members here would probably consider it close enough to stock to be stock. Most people at a show that look under the hood don't know the difference between an alternator and a generator. Unless of course you are at Hershey or something. But the local car show, a large percentage of attendees are 40 or under and may have never even driven a car without Fuel injection. The last thing they are going to know is what isn't correct on an 80 year old car. It will make someone who isn't a purist a nice driver. I was at a large Christmas party once 15 years ago with my wife. They were doing some trivia question giveaways. One of the questions was what year did the Corvette come out. After the first 3 silver haired guys got it wrong. I finally went up and claimed the prize. I couldn't believe three guys that were probably of about driving age when it was introduced, couldn't remember what year the corvette came out. They were guessing late 50's. So few guys are going t remember that cloth wrapped wire and a single jug master under the floor were original to a car this year, unless maybe they had one, they had to fix back in the day to get to work every day. Neat car. I had a 36 Coupe. They make a fun driver.

Sometimes the hunt/ /chase is more fun than actually owning it. Not discouraging though. Honestly on these cars you don't really have to worry much about matching numbers or anything of that type as that has little effect on it's value unless you are buying a survivor car in really nice condition, then you might want to verify everything really is original. There are several companies that can do inspections. Some much better than others. I'm sure some here can help in recommending ones they have been happy with. The best bet is to look at it yourself if possible. if you are not a real hardcore car guy though, you might want to bring someone along who is, just to make sure you don't buy any surprises. Do you have a price range you want to be in? What state are you located in? That will help us try to recommend cars in your area if we run across them. As mentioned in many threads. Buy the best car you can up front.

This one has been floating around craigslist for a couple of months. Doesn't seem too bad but it's a stick. it's in the Northeast. The asking price is 8500. It's mid winter though and has been for sale for a few months so I imagine it's a bit negotiable. There was another for close to that price as well that was similar in condition. That seems to be the buy in price on these, 6500-7500. https://newyork.craigslist.org/fct/cto/d/falcon-ranchero/6469699772.html

That's the common man's sensible way of looking at things. Now put on your governmental glasses and look at it in their eyes. Besides the one article touted a 5 year shortfall of something like 500G to 1.5 million. That's quite a "range" I also thought the town center that housed it, was to be used for festivals and other events. Were they charging anything for any of those events, or was the museum suppose to cover everything?

More photos please. You know we like photos too.

That car has amazingly nice chrome. Seems if it was an original staff car, they would have wasted time to carefully paint around all that sparkling trim. They would have painted everything drab except the glass and tires. Seems better it has nice chrome rather than any military lineage.

Google maps street view shows a lot of plates as well. Also showed my wife and kids out for a walk.

I might actually need it here. 1 to 3 inches turned out to be 12 on Sunday and that was followed up by probably atleast another 10 today. I'm so glad I bought a 4 wheel drive tractor with chains on all 4 a heated cab and power angle plow adapted to a quick plate. I can plow then raise it right up and push the new bank right over the top of the old one. Everything is ice up here after the ice storm and freeze up a couple weeks ago so that's a little more fun to pushing 12 inches of snow. Thank god for the chains or I would have buried it by now. I've only come real close once in 3 years.

There is something to not trusting banks. You give them a substantial amount of money, they give you nothing in interest and then have a fit when you come in to take some of it out. I had the money from selling my old shop in my account. I went in to get 4000 cash out on a Monday afternoon after a Holiday weekend (we are a tourist town) the teller said we really need notice to make sure we have that kind of money on hand but they would do it this time. The entire time I was there one of the local merchants was in there having his cash deposit for the weekend counted out and put in his account. This is a big branch, not a little bank. I also had money in this same bank and purchased a car by wiring the fairly large sum out, bringing my balance down to about 498 if I remember correctly. When I deposited money in that account and created it, they said do you want this account that yields nothing or this one that has a minimum of 500 which will yield hopefully enough of a difference to pay for the gas to get to the bank. It was less than 1/2 a percent different. Well of course I chose the better interest one. Never once did the bank officer mention anything about that 500 minimum when I transferred the money out. I didn't find out about it, until 3 months later when they sent out a quarterly statement for that account and they had banged me 15 for each month for being under the minimum. When I went in to complain about it and ask why no one mentioned it, I was directed to the bank officer on duty. The same one that transferred the money out. I was able to get it reduced to just one charge. Yeah that kind of trust the bank has been trying to build with me. What a joke. You are better to stuff it under the mattress sometimes. I won't even tell you about going in for a mortgage on our new house which is already more than 2/3 paid for (through owner financing) to get it converted to a conventional bank loan. Made me want to take the money I had in their bank from selling my shop, which was in their bank at that time and just pay the thing off. If I wasn't planning on building my new shop at the house, I would have. I'm not real fond of banks they are more of a necessary evil. We won't get into the bank across the street that I switched from. My friend a very successful business man here in town that I think owns a large chunk of the town, has much the same impression and his daughter used to work for them. She now works for him in one of his businesses.